
Education
- Indiana University School of Law J.D. 2003
- University of Tennessee Ph.D. 1990
Background
- Earned his J.D. magna cum laude at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington; elected to the Order of the Coif
- Partner/Counsel, Polk, Hyman & Associates, Indianapolis (2005-2007)
- Clerk, Hon. David Hamilton, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis (2004 - 2005)
- Contractor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1996-2001)
- Research Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. (1990-1994)
Biography
Jeffrey B. Hyman practices conservation and environmental law with the Conservation Law Center. He also works with Indiana Law's Conservation Law Clinic students. Before coming to the Center, he was law clerk to Federal District Court Judge David Hamilton and practiced public interest litigation at Polk, Hyman & Associates in Indianapolis.
Jeff also holds a PhD in Ecology and has worked on a variety of conservation issues over the years, including restoration of Pacific Northwest salmon populations and regional management of wetlands. He graduated magna cum laude from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2003.
Selected works
- Taeil Jang, George Vellidis, Jeffrey B. Hyman, et al., In Review, Model for Prioritizing Best Management Practice Implementation: Sediment Load Reduction. ____ Environmental Management ___.
- Jeffrey B. Hyman, Andrea Need and W. William Weeks, Statutory Reform to Protect Migrations as Phenomena of Abundance, 41 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 407 (2011).
- Robert L. Fischman & Jeffrey B. Hyman, The Legal Challenge of Protecting Animal Migrations as Phenomena of Abundance, 28 VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW J. 173 (2010).
- Jeffrey B. Hyman and Scott G. Leibowitz, JSEM: A Framework for Identifying and Evaluating Indicators, 66 Environmental Monitoring & Assessment 207 (2001).
- Jeffrey B. Hyman and Scott G. Leibowitz, A General Framework for Prioritizing Land Units for Ecological Protection and Restoration, 25 Environmental Mgmt. 23 (2000).
- Jeffrey B. Hyman, U.S. EPA, A Quantitative Basis for Landscape-Level Management of Prairie Pothole Wetlands (1996, EPA/600/R-96/099).
- Jeffrey B. Hyman and Kris Wernstedt, A Value-Informed Framework for Interdisciplinary Analysis: Application to Recovery Planning for Snake River Salmon, 9 Conservation Biology 625 (1995).
Interests
- Clinical and skills
- Administrative law
- Land conservation law
- Environmental law
- Law and science
